Dan Bongino was on Fox News responding to the president’s executive order a few minutes ago, and he said something interesting about the use of neck restraints versus chokeholds:
Bongino noted that he was glad that the president didn’t ban neck restraints, which he says are unfortunately known as chokeholds. Bongino explained that a chokehold specifically cuts off someone’s windpipe and is indeed very dangerous and could kill someone. But he says that neck restraints and carotid restraints are very different.
Bongino then explains that if you watch the Atlanta video of Rayshard Brooks fighting with the two police officers carefully, you’ll see one of the officers begin to attempt a neck restraint on Brooks but ultimately doesn’t do it. Bongino notes that he can’t get into the officer’s head as to why he didn’t go through with it, but said if he had gotten a successful carotid neck restraint on Brooks, he probably would have passed out in seconds and woken up alive.
Bongino adds that people have to be careful when discussing police tactics, because if you lump carotid neck restraints with chokeholds and ban them altogether, you’re leaving the officer with no choice but to use a firearm, which in many cases leads to death.
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